{"product_id":"lifes-work-9781405111348","title":"Lifes Work","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife''s Work\u003c\/i\u003e is a study of the shifting spaces and material practices of social reproduction in the global era. The volume blurs the heavily drawn boundaries between production and reproduction, showing through case studies of migration, education and domesticity how the practices of everyday life challenge these categorical distinctions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eNew and innovative study of the shifting spaces and material practices of social reproduction in the global era.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eInvestigates changing conceptions of subjectivity, national identity and modernity.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFocuses on both theoretical and practical issues.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes case studies on migration, education and domesticity.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating journey through the tangled power relations and layered geographies of social reproduction. The essays are creative, diverse, and internationally thought-provoking.\" \u003ci\u003eNancy Folbre, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"An inspired, highly readable, and vitally significant collection of papers. In attempting to pull apart and examine \"the multiple relations, spaces, practices and possibilities of life's work,\" it moves considerably beyond the achievements of those who have previously wed feminist, Marxist and postructural theories to address issues of social reproduction.\" \u003ci\u003eAllan Pred, Professor of Geography, UC Berkeley\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A stimulating collection infused with feminist scholarship from the domestic labour debate to embodiment and gendered subjectivities. The collection powerfully documents the changing connections between employment and all those other forms of work that make up the total social organisation of labor. Absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in the diversity of ways of living and making a living in a globalized world.\" \u003ci\u003eLinda McDowell, Professor of Geography, University College London\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"With great clarity and a fascinating range of examples, this collection promises to shift our understanding of race, gender, sexuality, nationality, and class in late capitalism.\" \u003ci\u003eCaren Kaplan, Associate Professor of Women's Studies, UC Berkeley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Some of the chapters are fascinating ... What sets this book apart from others that have wrestled with the production\/reproduction boundary is its distinctly multi- and transnational flavour. In the contemporary world social reproduction can be just as 'global' as production has become, and the chapters in \u003ci\u003eLife's Work\u003c\/i\u003e provide many absorbing and welcome examples.\" \u003ci\u003eProgress in Human Geography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A wide ranging, hyper(post)modern collection of essays in social and cultural geography...It trips nicely from pen to page\" \u003ci\u003eNetwork\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“The book’s authors extend the social reproduction debates in Marxist, feminist, and development studies by advocating the conceptual importance of economic-social-political complexity, subjectivity, and empirical analysis. The introductory chapter is well-written and would serve as a useful and comprehensible piece for both upper level undergraduate and graduate courses.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnnals of the Association of American Geographers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors. \u003cp\u003eLife’s Work: An Introductionm Review and Critique. Katharyne Mitchell, Sallie A Marston and Cindi Katz.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Education and the Making of the Modern (Trans)national Subject.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Imagined Country: National Environmental Ideologies in School Geography Textbooks: John Morgan.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Indigenous Professionalization: Transnational Social Reproduction in the Andes. Nina Laurie, Robert Andolina and Sarah Radcliffe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Producing the Future: Getting To Be British. Jean Lave.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Domesticity and Other Homely Spaces of Modernity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Domesticating Birth in the Hospital: “Family-Centered” Birth and the Emergence of “Homelike” Birthing Rooms. Maria Fannin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Adolescent Latina Bodyspaces: Making Homegirls, Homebodies and Homeplaces. Melissa Hyams.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Of Fictional Cities and “Diasporic” Aesthetics. Rosemary Marangoly George.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Modern Migrants\/Flexible Citizens: Cultural Constructions of Belonging and Alienation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Valuing Childcare: Troubles in Suburbia. Geraldine Pratt.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Toque una Ranchera, Por Favor. Altha J Cravey.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Human Smuggling, the Transnational Imaginary, and Everyday Geographies of the Nation-State. Alison Mountz.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407845761367,"sku":"9781405111348","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405111348.jpg?v=1730500721","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/lifes-work-9781405111348","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}